Equatorial Guinea Policy interest rate (BEAC TIAO)
Equatorial Guinea Policy interest rate (BEAC TIAO) is 4.5 percent, in force since 29 Jun 2026. It was 4.75 percent before that. Last checked against the official source on 9 Sep 2026.
Taux d'Interet des Appels d'Offres (TIAO), the main refinancing/tender rate of the Banque des Etats de l'Afrique Centrale, set union-wide for all six CEMAC member states including Equatorial Guinea.
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| Current value | 4.5 percent |
|---|---|
| In force from | 2026-06-29 |
| Official source | BEAC, Décision N° 01/CPM/2026 du 29 juin 2026 portant fixation des taux directeurs de la BEAC (Comité de Politique Monétaire, 2e session ordinaire, Yaoundé, 29 juin 2026, signée Yvon Sana Bangui) — TIAO 4,50% |
| Last verified | 2026-09-09 |
| Verification | primary — No verification limitation recorded — read from the official source cited. |
| Provenance | source fingerprint |
What this value means
Equatorial Guinea has NO national policy rate. Monetary policy for the CEMAC zone (Cameroon, Central African Republic, Chad, Republic of Congo, Equatorial Guinea, Gabon) is set by BEAC in Yaounde; this identical value and effective date must appear for all six CEMAC countries. Verified directly from the BEAC communique PDF, which I downloaded and text-extracted: the CPM's second ordinary session of 2026, held Monday 29 June 2026 at Yaounde under Governor Yvon Sana Bangui, decided to lower the TIAO from 4.75% to 4.50%, the marginal lending facility rate from 6.25% to 5.75%, and reserve requirement coefficients from 7.00% to 6.50% on sight deposits and 4.50% to 4.00% on term deposits; the deposit facility rate was held at 0.00%. The same communique records the BEAC Services' May 2026 CEMAC projections for 2026: growth 3.2%, average annual inflation 2.4%, external coverage of the currency 70.7%. Access quirk: the formal instrument, Decision N.01/CPM/2026, is published at https://www.beac.int/wp-content/uploads/2016/10/D%C3%A9cision-N%C2%B001-CPM.pdf but is a scanned image PDF with no text layer, so the operative rate was read from the signed communique instead. Note also that BEAC's own /politique-monetaire/decisions-de-politique-monetaire/ index mislabels the ordering of the June 2026 and December 2025 decisions - do not rely on that page's sequence. An intervening CPM session on 2 April 2026 left the TIAO unchanged at 4.75%, so it generates no history entry. Currency is the CENTRAL African CFA franc (XAF), a distinct currency from the West African XOF used by UEMOA; both are pegged to the euro at 655.957 but they are not interchangeable and are issued by different central banks. CITATION MECHANICS (2026-08-07): beac.int serves current CPM documents from REUSED filename slots under /wp-content/uploads/2016/10/ — the folder marks when the media entry was first created, not the document's date, and the slot's content is OVERWRITTEN at each CPM session (the superseded document then moves to a dated filename, e.g. Communiqué-de-Presse-CPM-du-02-04-2026.pdf). The cited URL therefore always serves the LATEST decision: byte-identity checks will break at the next CPM (Q3 2026) by design, and a changed hash at this URL means a NEW decision to verify, not a broken citation. Décision N° 01/CPM/2026 read in full at this URL on 2026-08-07 (187,152 bytes): TIAO 4,75% → 4,50%; facilité de prêt marginal 6,25% → 5,75%; réserves obligatoires 7,00% → 6,50% (vue) and 4,50% → 4,00% (terme).
Earlier values
| From | Value | Source |
|---|---|---|
| 2025-12-15 | 4.75 | BEAC, Decision N.02/CPM/2025 du 15 decembre 2025 portant… |
Get it programmatically
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# Provenance: curl https://afriref.dev/provenance/gq/policy-rateOther Equatorial Guinea series: Value added tax (Impuesto sobre el Valor Anadido, IVA) - standard rate · VAT registration threshold · Salario minimo interprofesional (SMI) · Public holidays · Consumer price inflation (year-on-year) · Corporate income tax (Impuesto sobre Sociedades) · Withholding tax rates · Statutory interest (interés legal / taux d'intérêt légal) · Personal income tax (Impuesto sobre Sueldos y Salarios / IRPF) · Statutory social-insurance contributions
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